On Tuesday 23 April 2024 13:53:58 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > you find a zombie with ps auxwww | grep 'Z' > and it is usually <defunct> > > A process in Linux can have one of the following states: > > D = uninterruptible sleep > I = idle > R = running > S = sleeping > T = stopped by job control signal > t = stopped by debugger during trace > Z = zombie > > look here https://itsfoss.com/kill-zombie-process-linux/ > > $ ps auxwww | grep 'Z' > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > emanoil 719868 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:22 0:00 > [firefox-bin] <defunct> > emanoil 732279 0.0 0.0 6332 2192 pts/3 S+ 22:49 0:00 grep Z > Yes, thank you. I have searched online for how to get rid of zombies, but there is no simple or quick way of killing all processes with that status of Z or <defunct>. I must go through my processes, find them individually, find their parent processes, and so on. It seems to me that if a system can identify processes with that status, then it should be possible to create a command that can find and kill all processes listed with the status of Z or <defunct>. Why this cannot be, I don't know, but at present the only way I know to kill zombies is one-at-a-time. The problem here is time. I don't have time to do this, and it does not seem to be causing any harm to my system. I don't like to see zombies, especially not when they pile up to dozens of them, but it is more of an aesthetic annoyance rather than an urgent problem. Maybe over this weekend I can do some zombie hunting. I do think that it would be useful to know if it is, for example, the cause is the same process or processes. It is possible that I am doing something that results in these processes leaving zombies behind. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
